Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 82931
redhat-config-packages hangs when installing kernel support
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:05 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021127 Description of problem: Seeing major anomolies with RPM. I this case, tried to install kernel support using redhat-config-packages on a minimal system (smallest footprint image was installed in anaconda). Selected kernel (4 packages). Pressed update. Get "Preparing system update" dialog. When progress bar get to 100%, app hangs. Text under bar says "Computing package dependencies". Can kill app and all seems ok. May be another ramificaiton of the comment I added to 80751, where dialog goes away with no further output. Suspect instability in RPM is the cause... I needed kernel support to get tk installed. When installing tk from the command line, RPM reports 2 bars of 100% and then hangs... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start app 2.select kernel support 3.press update Actual Results: hangs with 100% progress bar Expected Results: no hang Additional info:
Strike the installing from command line comment. When I copied the file to disk, it installed ok. RPM must not like installing when current directory is on the CD-ROM.
If you type dmesg, do you see errors relating to reading from the cdrom?
No errors from the CD-ROM. In fact, it hangs prior to prompting for any insertions. Ran dmesg prior and after hang, no new messages appended to log. BTW, I am up to date per rhn. Should I try some rawhide RPM packages?
Tried rawhide rpm and rpm-python 4.2.66, no joy. I hear that rpm now uses futex. How would I go about seeing if rpm is hung?
To use rawhide rpm, you'll also have to use rawhide redhat-config-packages (and some others probably). Was probably due to interactions between different rpm versions used by redhat-config-pcakages and the rhn-applet which are fixed now (or just having a stale rpm lock from something else, but haven't seen that with rawhide in a while)